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Presently, Babak Fouladi occupies the position of Chief Technology & Digital Officer at Royal KPN NV. Mr. Fouladi previously was Chief Technology Officer at MTN Group Ltd., Chief Technology Officer for Vodafone Spain, Chief Technology Officer for Vodafone România SA, VP-Multimedia & System Integration at Ericsson Ltd. and Vice President-Systems Integration at Ericsson Corporatia AO. Babak Fouladi received an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree from George Washington University.

Babak Hodjat is the founder of Sentient Technologies (USA) LLC, Dejima, Inc., and MobileVerbs, Inc. Sentient Technologies was founded in 2007, Dejima, Inc. was founded in 1998, and MobileVerbs, Inc. was founded in 2007.
Dr. Hodjat held the title of Chief Executive Officer at Sentient Technologies (USA) LLC, Chief Technical Officer at Dejima, Inc., and Director & Chief Technology Officer at MobileVerbs, Inc. From 2004 to 2008, Dr. Hodjat worked as a Senior Director-Engineering at Sybase, Inc. He also worked as a Principal at Artificial Life, Inc. Dr. Hodjat earned a doctorate degree from Kyushu University.

Babak Hosseiny is currently working as a Creative Director at ICF Next SA.

Babak Pedram is the founder and President of Virtus Advisory Group, Inc. since 2013.
He is also the founder of OverActive Media Holdings Corp.
Mr. Pedram's current jobs include Director at Marvel Biotechnology, Inc. since 2022, Independent Director at Marvel Biosciences Corp.
since 2022, and Vice President at Sutton Compliance Communications.
Mr. Pedram's former job was as an Independent Director at OV2 Investment 1, Inc. Mr. Pedram received his undergraduate degree in 2004 and his graduate degree in 2006 from Queen's University.

Aliona Babak worked as a Minister-Development of Communities for the Government of Ukraine from 2019 to 2020.

Babak Farzami is the founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Metricly, Inc., a company he founded in 1997.
He has also held former positions as the Executive Chairman of Applica Corp., Technology Director-Local Services Division at AT&T Corp., Principal at Unisys Corp.
and Teleport Communications Group, Inc., and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Venrock Associates.
Additionally, he served as the Senior Vice President-Corporate Development at Breakaway Solutions, Inc. Mr. Farzami holds a graduate degree from The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York and an undergraduate degree from Drexel University.

Babak Minovi currently works as a consultant at Eurasia Group Ltd.

Babak Zenouzi currently works at The Urban Land Institute, as Member and National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc., as Member.
Mr. Zenouzi also formerly worked at The Boston Company Asset Management LLC, as Analyst, Delaware Investments Dividend & Income Fund, Inc., as Chief Investment Officer & Senior Vice President, Delaware Investments Global Dividend & Income Fund, Inc., as Senior Vice President from 2006 to 2011, Macquarie Investment Management Business Trust, as Senior Vice President & Chief Investment Officer from 2017 to 2020, Macquarie Investment Management Business Trust, as Portfolio Manager from 1992 to 1998, Chartwell Investment Partners LLC, as Partner from 1999 to 2006, and Delaware Enhanced Global Dividend & Income Fund, as CIO-Real Estate Securities & Income Solutions.
Mr. Zenouzi received his undergraduate degree in 1985 from Babson College and graduate degree in 1992 from Boston College.

Babak Yazdani currently works at CAST AI Group, Inc., as Director.

Babak Ziai is associated with the University of Southern California as a Professor since 2015.

Babak Poushanchi is Founder and Managing Partner of Cota Capital, a San Francisco-based firm investing in private and public U.S.-based modern enterprise technology companies.
Launched in 2015, the Firm has over $1 billion in assets under management, is SEC-registered, and focuses its investments in the areas of Modern Infrastructure, Enterprise Automation, FinTech, and HealthTech.
As Managing Partner, Babak works full time on building and scaling an enduring Firm, serving on all Firm Committees and Councils, and overseeing investments and research across the Firm’s private and public portfolios.
As Portfolio Manager of the Cota Growth Fund, Babak is directly responsible for the Firm’s public investments.
Babak is well-known for being a conscientious leader who serves with integrity, and for his deep domain expertise in enterprise technology.
Prior to Cota, Babak served as Co-Founder and Co-Portfolio Manager of Newbrook Capital, a global equity long/short fund focused on investments across the technology, media, consumer, and industrial sectors.
Babak was also a Venture Partner at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, a leading technology accelerator based in New York.
Previously, Babak was on the investment teams at Karsch Capital, a global equity long/short fund focused on public investments across all sectors, and Indosuez Capital, a leading middle market merchant banking group focused on equity and debt private investments across the capital structure and a broad range of sectors.
Babak received a B.A.
in Economics from Northwestern University.

Babak Sadighi is the founder of Axiomatics AB, where he holds the title of Vice Chairman & Head-Strategy starting in 2022.
He is also the founder of Axiomatics, Inc. Mr. Sadighi's current job is as a Director at CanaryBit AB.
His former jobs include being a Director at Telcred AB and a Principal at the Swedish Institute.
Mr. Sadighi obtained a doctorate degree from Imperial College London.

Babak joined Madrona as a venture partner in 2023.
He brings deep knowledge of creating teams, products, and businesses from the ground up and then scaling them, and he has over two decades of experience at startups, academia, Google, and Amazon.
Journey to Madrona Before joining Madrona, Babak was a vice president at Amazon for eight and a half years.
He founded and led Amazon’s Grand Challenge — the organization responsible for identifying, investing in, and operationalizing substantial new areas for the company.
He led Amazon’s expansion into healthcare, including healthcare services, diagnostics, and implementing machine learning for health.
He built and led teams focused on wearables, experiential e-commerce, devices and services for childhood development, and machine learning for biotech, among other areas.
Before joining Amazon, Noteworthy Babak serves on the board of directors of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), is a fellow of SPIE, and has received many recognitions, including the University of Michigan Bicentennial Alumni Award, IEEE CAS Society Industrial Pioneer Award, NSF CAREER Award, Rock Health Inventor of the Year, and MIT Technology Review 35 under 35.
His work has been displayed at the London Museum of Science and the Computer History Museum and has won Time magazine’s Best Invention of the Year twice.
He was recognized by Ad Age as one of the 50 most creative people in the United States.
Babak received a bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of Washington, a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, and master’s degrees in physics and electrical engineering and a Ph.D.
in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.
He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University.

Babak Yaghmaie is currently a Partner at Cooley LLP since 2010.
He is also a Member of the New York State Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar Association.
Prior to his current positions, he worked at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC starting in 2004.
Previously, he held Principal positions at Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP.
Mr. Yaghmaie obtained his graduate degree from Boston University in 1992 and his undergraduate degree from Emory University in 1989.

Babak Azad is the founder of Round 2 Ventures LLC, which was founded in 2017.
He worked as a Senior Vice President-Media & Customer Acquisition at Beachbody LLC from 2007 to 2015.
He also worked as the Chief Marketing Officer & SVP-Communications at GoodRx Holdings, Inc. from 2019 to 2023.
Mr. Azad has an undergraduate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Babak Assadi, CFA, is a Managing Director & Portfolio Manager at Hamilton Capital Partners, Inc. He is also a Partner and an integral member of the firm’s investment management team since its inception.
As Portfolio Manager and Head of Trade Execution, Mr. Assadi assists in the management of Hamilton ETFs' actively managed ETFs and investment funds, with an emphasis on quantitative and technical analysis.
He is also responsible for all trading related functions, from trade execution to communicating with market makers and clients for bulk orders of Hamilton ETFs.
He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Honours Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Babak Bobby Farahi is the founder of Dolls Kill, Inc. He currently holds the title of Chief Executive Officer & Director at the company, which was founded in 2011.

Babak A.
Taheri is currently the Chief Executive Officer & Director at Silvaco Group, Inc. He previously worked as the Director, Chief Executive & Technical Officer at Silvaco, Inc. from 2018 to 2021.
He also held the position of Vice President-Engineering at InvenSense, Inc. Dr. Taheri holds a doctorate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California.

Mr. Babak Jabbari is Vice President-Operations at SeaBird Exploration Ltd.
and a Director, Vice President-Operations at SeaBird Exploration FZ-LLC.
He is on the Board of Directors at SeaBird Exploration FZ-LLC and Carpathia Trading AB.
He received his undergraduate degree from Kalmar Maritime Academy.